Quotei hate the term "real metal"
its too wide a style of music now to just classify stuff as "real metal"
Anyone who talks about "real metal" or "tru-metal" and takes the time to split it into endless amounts of sub-genres gets on my nerves. I just say f**k it, it's all metal and you either like it or you don't. I am quite sick and tired of some pretentious prick sneering at me because I thought band X might be classed as speed metal when infact it's considered to be thrash metal. I also get tired of people deciding that band X is/isn't metal based on comparisons against much older bands. It's fairly pointless. Metal evolves just like any other music genre, people need to learn to accept change. It's probably just a bad stereotype but metal elitists strike me as very sad people who clutch desperately to their elitism as it's one of the few things that allow them feel superior to other people.
9 times out of 10 when someone says "Band X isn't metal!" what they really mean is "I don't like that band". Unfortunately for these people it's too difficult for them to understand that just because they don't like it doesn't mean it isn't metal.
Currently some metal I have been listening to includes;
In Flames (old and new)
All That Remians (mostly new stuff)
Dimmu Borgir (old and new)
Machine Head (older stuff, havn't got their newest album yet)
Decapitated (older stuff)
Hypocrisy (newer stuff)
Zyklon (old and new)
/end rant.
